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		Injuries and D-league players will hold back Golden State By David Zizmor March 16, 2010

	OAKLAND--As we've been saying Golden State doesn't have a whole lot to play for but you have to give them credit where it's due they certainly haven't given up. This isn't a team that goes out there on the floor and just doesn't try. They go out there and they try and they play hard but as we've been saying time and time again they just don't have the players. There's so many guys that are injured and they're playing so many D-league guys that they simply don't have the fire power to really hang with these teams and you see the Warriors get into the fourth quarter where they might keep the game moderately close and then they just fall apart. The Warriors after losing six straight finally managed to win a game against Toronto over the weekend but fell back to their old selves again on Monday night losing to the Lakers at the Coliseum Arena. The win against Toronto wasn't exactly like beating the Cleveland Cavaliers the Raptors are a horrible road team though Toronto has a respectable record around .500. They have only won ten games and lost 23 on the road and the Raptors are a horrible road team, so beating Toronto on the road is not a huge accomplishment. You can be happy that the Warriors managed to win a game but let's face it in the grand scheme of things beating Toronto is not that a huge a deal and it's not like they beat the Cavs, Lakers or the Magic. This a team who’s trying to get through the season and they are trying and that's one of the reasons why Warriors fans appreciate them on some level but at this point the Warriors are sick and tired. They are tired of the never ending circus, the merry go round, every time you think there is a little bit of hope that some sunshine breaks through the clouds they just swing back the other way. It just keeps getting back again to the same thing and it keeps going round and round and it's all on team owner Chris Cohen and it's on his shoulders and he's the owner and he's the guy you look to and he's owned the team for nearly 20 years and the team has stunk for all but two of those years, it’s the management's fault. This is much on the management as it is on anybody else and say what you will about the players coming in and out, it's the management who put the players there in the first place. It's the management who picks the players in the draft, it's the management who signs guys for free agency, it's the management who decides to give guys big or small contracts. Cohen is showing lack of any basketball knowledge and ability and most importantly he's showing the lack of ability to hire anybody who knows how to run a basketball team. Every single person who comes through here torches the place; they just don't know what they're doing. It's just complete total incompetence and that's on Cohen's shoulders. It's his problem, he's the management, he's the one who owns the team, he hires and fires people and he's shown an incredible lack of ability to do that for any degree of success. He just can't hire anybody that knows what they’re doing and to put this team in the right direction. Warriors fans are sick and tired of Cohen and every time he gets some talented players they end up getting shipped out and every time they do somehow management finds a way to screw it up, whether it's the coaches, the players, or the bad contracts, or the general managers, and even when they got someone who kind of knew what they were doing like Chris Mullen the W's managed to screw that up. Mullen put together a good team that managed to make the playoffs one year and they should have had another post season and didn't and Cohen drove him out of town. It's just unbelievable and now Warriors fans are hoping that Cohen will sell the team. Unfortunately for W's fans the market isn't particularly good and Cohen wants to take as much money as humanly possible for this team because he thinks this team is worth more than everybody else does. Nobody is willing to pay the price that Cohen is asking so it doesn't look like they're going to sell this team anytime soon until Cohen comes to his senses and realizes that he's asking for too much money. Oracle owner Larry Ellison is willing to pay face value market for the team which is estimated around $240 million but Cohen wants $400 million and Ellison who is a smart business man says before he even considers buying the team Cohen needs to wake up and get real about the sales price. David Zizmor covers Warriors basketball and does a weekly commentary on the team each week on Sportstalk